About Richard Riccardi
Richard Riccardi
Music Teacher
Location: Asheville, NC
Speaks: English
Instructs: Piano, Viola, Violin
Education: Master of Musical Arts, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, June, 1971
Bachelor of Music, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, June, 1964
California Teaching Credential, Single Subject (Music), November, 1990
Akademie Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria, 1962-63
Performance Experience: Richard Riccardi has accompanied such greats as Joel Grey, Martha Raye, Diahann Carroll, Tom Jones, Wesla Whitfield, Sharon McNight and Mel Torme, and was associate conductor for the Third National Broadway Tour of ‘Annie’. He has played for the San Francisco Symphony under Maestro Seiji Ozawa, for the San Francisco Opera and Ballet, the Lamplighters, Pocket Opera, The Summer Song Opera program, and the San Francisco Boys Chorus.
Teaching Experience: Adjunct Professor (piano) at Brevard College, Brevard NC, 2020-current
Adjunct Coach and Accompanist at Mars Hill University 2020-current
Adjunct Accompanist East Tennessee State University 2020-2021
Adjunct Accompanist Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 2011-2019
Music Coordinator and instructor, Ross Valley Schools, San Anselmo, CA 1995-2008
Music instructor, Orchestra, Band, Chorus, and Musical Theatre Music Director, Alameda High
School, Alameda CA 1989-199
Teaching Philosophy: Richard tailors his approach to each individual student based on their interests and learning styles. Music should be fun, and so should lessons!
Get to know Richard Riccardi
Richard is an expert piano, violin, and viola teacher. Richard and his wife Sandy have taken social media by storm with
their parodies and original comedy song cabaret, with over 40 million hits and
over 80,000 followers, which they perform in New York City, Cape Cod, Boston,
San Francisco, Baltimore, Denver and Black Mountain on an annual basis.
Richard Riccardi teaches at:
800 Fairview Rd
Asheville, NC 28803
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